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Do free speech rights include the right to carry a backpack?<p></p><p>A case involving protesters, U.S. Army Stryker vehicles and backpacks, that’s right backpacks, is being heard in a federal courtroom in Tacoma.&#160; The civil rights trial comes nearly six years after the actual protests took place at the Port of Tacoma.</p><p>(Click on the listen button to hear the complete story.)</p><p>The "no backpack" directive can be heard on this video from the March 2007 protests at the Port of Tacoma.</p><p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w9HrDJEN58</p><p><!--break--></p>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:04:20 -0500http://www.kplu.org/post/do-free-speech-rights-include-right-carry-backpack
http://www.kplu.org/post/do-free-speech-rights-include-right-carry-backpack<p></p><p>A case involving protesters, U.S. Army Stryker vehicles and backpacks, that’s right backpacks, is being heard in a federal courtroom in Tacoma.&#160; The civil rights trial comes nearly six years after the actual protests took place at the Port of Tacoma.</p><p>(Click on the listen button to hear the complete story.)</p><p>The "no backpack" directive can be heard on this video from the March 2007 protests at the Port of Tacoma.</p><p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w9HrDJEN58</p><p><!--break--></p>87no

A case involving protesters, U.S. Army Stryker vehicles and backpacks, that’s right backpacks, is being heard in a federal courtroom in Tacoma. The civil rights trial comes nearly six years after the actual protests took place at the Port of Tacoma.

(Click on the listen button to hear the complete story.)

The "no backpack" directive can be heard on this video from the March 2007 protests at the Port of Tacoma.